OREANDA-NEWS. The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG)(Paris:PGP) announced today that the final proration factor of 15.0123% for its exchange offer in connection with the separation of P&G’s global fine fragrances, salon professional, cosmetics and retail hair color businesses, along with select hair styling brands (collectively, “P&G Specialty Beauty Brands”). A total of 690,798,524 shares of P&G common stock were validly tendered in exchange for 409,726,299 shares of common stock of Galleria Co., the corporation formed to hold P&G Specialty Beauty Brands. The exchange offer successfully closed on September 30, 2016.

Galleria Co. was formerly a wholly owned subsidiary of P&G. On October 1, 2016, pursuant to the previously announced merger, Galleria Co. merged with and into a subsidiary of Coty Inc. (NYSE:COTY) and became a wholly owned subsidiary of Coty.

Pursuant to the exchange offer and based on the final count by the exchange agent, a total of 690,798,524 shares of P&G common stock were tendered prior to the expiration of the exchange offer, including 1,487,419 shares of P&G common stock tendered by odd-lot shareholders not subject to proration, whose shares were fully accepted in the exchange offer. All remaining tendered shares of P&G common stock were accepted in the exchange offer on a pro rata basis using the final proration factor of 15.0123%. Shares of P&G common stock tendered but not exchanged due to proration will be returned to tendering shareholders.

Under the terms of the exchange offer, fractional shares of Coty common stock will not be issued. Instead, fractional shares will be aggregated and sold, and the net cash proceeds of such sale will be distributed to tendering P&G shareholders otherwise entitled to fractional interests.

About Procter & Gamble

P&G serves consumers around the world with one of the strongest portfolios of trusted, quality, leadership brands, including Always®, Ambi Pur®, Ariel®, Bounty®, Charmin®, Crest®, Dawn®, Downy®, Fairy®, Febreze®, Gain®, Gillette®, Head & Shoulders®, Lenor®, Olay®, Oral-B®, Pampers®, Pantene®, SK-II®, Tide®, Vicks®, and Whisper®. The P&G community includes operations in approximately 70 countries worldwide.

About Coty

Coty is a leading global beauty company with net revenues of $4.3 billion for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2016. Founded in Paris in 1904, Coty is a pure play beauty company with a portfolio of well-known fragrances, color cosmetics and skin & body care products sold in over 130 countries and territories. Coty’s product offerings include such power brands as adidas, Calvin Klein, Chlo?, DAVIDOFF, Marc Jacobs, OPI, philosophy, Playboy, Rimmel and Sally Hansen.